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Planning a 4-6 day girls' road trip. We want to fly into Buffalo so we can see Niagara Falls (Canadian side) and then fly out of another city (maybe Albany) several days later. We are very open to route suggestions. Have read/heard good things about Letchworth State Park and Watkins Glen and Hudson River Valley area. Any thoughts?

Letchworth and Watkins Glen State Parks are great and well worth seeing. Corning Glass Museum, wineries and Ithaca and its state parks (Taughannock Falls, Buttermilk Falls and Robert Treman) and weekend farmers market are among other worthwhile endeavors along with any of the lakes.

I am not a fan of Watkins Glen village and would not recommend staying there. Head to Ithaca or Corning.

The Hudson Valley is also a great region. Many pleasant towns, historic mansions, museums, Bear Mountains and Minnwaska State Parks and of course the river are some draws. I like Rhinebeck and Cold Spring the best town-wise. Many people like Hudson. Newburgh should be avoided.

In Senecas Falls is the Ntl. Women's Hall of Fame, as well as the Women's Rights National Park. There is a small museum open very limited hours called It's a Wonderful Life Museum, inspired by the movie of the same title that was inspired by the town of Seneca Falls! If you're a fan you must seek out the bridge in town that looks just like the bridge in the movie.

Continue the drive through Auburn NY (has a great little diner for lunch) on your way to Skaneateles, New York. Set on a picturesque Finger Lake of the same name [pr. skin-ee-AT-liss], Skaneateles is as Norman Rockwell a town as I can imagine. If you go in nice weather, you might be able to take a boat ride on the lake. (You didn't mention what month you're planning the trip).

Continuing onto route I-81, I would head toward Binghamton, New York - with gorgeous hills and valleys, and then onto I-86 and Route 17 to the Hudson Valley.